Dan Attrell (MA) gives a lecture on the divinization of kings and shaman among the wild barbarian tribes living just north of Ancient Greece. He explores their life on the frontier of the Indo-European world, and their stories of great shamanic figures like Orpheus, Zalmoxis, and Rhesus in Ancient Greek literature. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrace http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamanism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orpheus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zalmoxis Visit http://www.themodernhermeticist.wordpress.com for more information and for other lectures by Dan Attrell. Bibliography: Aronen, Jaakko. “Dragon Cults and νύμφη δράκαινα in IGUR 974.” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 111 (1996): 125-132 Bremmer, Jan. The Early Greek Concept of the Soul. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983. Casson, Lionel. “The Thracians.” The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, New Series 35, No. 1 (1977): 2-6. Dimitrova, Nora. “Inscriptions and Iconography in the Monuments of the Thracian Rider.” Hesperia 71, No. 2 (2002): 209-229. Dodds, E. R. The Greeks and the Irrational. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1951. Eliade, Mircea and Willard R. Trask. “Zalmoxis.” History of Religions 11, No. 3 (1972): 257-302. Eliade, Mircea. Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1964. Eliade, Mircea. Images and Symbols: Studies in Religious Symbolism. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991. Farkas, Ann. “Style and Subject Matter in Native Thracian Art.” Metropolitan Museum Journal 16 (1981): 33-48. Frazer, James G. “The Golden Bough.” Forgotten Books, 2008. Finkelberg, Margalit. “Anatolian Languages and Indo-European Migrations to Greece.” The Classical World 91 (1), 1997: 3-20. Freeman, Kathleen. The Pre-Socratic Philosophers. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1946. Gignoux, P. “Corps Osseux et Ame Osseuse: Essai sur le Chamanisme dans l'Iran Ancien. ” Journal Asiatique 267, 1979: 41-79. Gimbutas, Marija Alseikaitė. The Gods and Goddesses of Old Europe: 7000 to 3500 BC myths, legends and cult images. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1974. Guthrie, William Keith Chambers. Orpheus and Greek Religion: a Study of the Orphic Movement. Princeton: Princeton University Press: 1993. Jackson, Peter. “Light from Distant Asterisks: Towards a Description of the Indo-European Religious Heritage.” Numen 49 (1), 2002: 61-102. Kerényi, Carl. Dionysos: Archetypal Image of Indestructible Life. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1976. Lozovan, E. and Safia F. Haddad. “Dacia Sacra.” History of Religions 7, No. 3 (1968): 209-243. Mallory, J.P. In Search of the Indo-Europeans: Language, Archaeology and Myth. London: Thames and Hudson, 1989. McGovern, Patrick E. Ancient Wine: The Search for the Origins of Viniculture. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003. Renfrew, Colin. Archaeology & Language: The Puzzle of Indo-European Origins. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Turcan, Robert. “Horsemen, Mothers and Serpents.” In The Cults of the Roman Empire, 248-265. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 1996. Planeaux, Cristopher. “The Date of Bendis’ Entry into Attica.” The Classical Journal 96, No. 2 (2001) 165-192. Venedikov, Ivan. “Thrace.” The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, New Series 35, No. 1 (1977): 72-80. West, M. L. “The Orphics of Olbia” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 45 (1982): 17-29. Wohlberg, Joseph. “Haoma-Soma in the World of Ancient Greece.” Journal of Psychoactive Drugs 22, 1990: 333-342.

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